This isn't about revenge or payback or any catchy word you want to use. It's about one team being better than the other. It's about the Colts, with their health and 57,000 crazies behind them, being better than the Chargers, who will be hard-pressed to compensate for the loss of all-world tight end Antonio Gates. L.T. will get his, but Indy's legit defense won't allow Philip Rivers to stage a suitable encore. Given a second shot at the Chargers, does anyone really believe Peyton Manning will litter the field with interceptions or Adam Vinatieri will spray field goals around the RCA Dome? Neither do I.

Phil Richards: Colts 27, Chargers 17

The Colts have played seven games since Dwight Freeney went down and won six of them. Now it gets serious. If you put pressure on San Diego quarterback Philip Rivers, he tends to fall apart. If you don't, he can beat you. And don't even start thinking about New England's Tom Brady standing back there, patting the ball, picking a target. Tackle Raheem Brock has missed all, and end Robert Mathis most of the past four games. The pass rush has been largely nonexistent in their absence. Brock and Mathis are back, and the Colts will get the pressure they need, for a week anyway.
Phillip B. Wilson: Colts 27, Chargers 17

No Murphy's Law for the Colts this time. No six-pack of interceptions, double dose of special-teams touchdowns or missed chip-shot field goals. The resilient Colts are as healthy as they have been in a long time. Peyton Manning's offensive weapons finally should be intact. San Diego's LaDainian Tomlinson is scary fast, but so too are the Colts defenders on the RCA Dome FieldTurf. L.T., meet Bob Sanders, NFL Defensive Player of the Year. Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers showed some grit in last week's win, but beating the Titans isn't the same as measuring up to the playoff-tested Colts.
Bob Kravitz: Colts 26, Chargers 13

And that's a conservative prediction. The Colts could very well put a Denver-style beating on the Chargers. Consider the last time these two teams played, in San Diego: The Colts, suffering from a Patriots hangover, gave up two touchdown returns on special teams, threw six interceptions and still had the game on Adam Vinatieri's foot at the very end. As long as the Colts don't play giveaway -- we're talking one turnover or fewer -- this should be a relatively stress-free exercise. The Colts will force Philip Rivers to beat them. And he won't."

the worst thing anyone can do is put down the chargers. This chargers team has more talent on it than any team in the league. The only thing they lack sometimes is motivation. IF you accidently motivate the charger monster your in trouble.:yes:

The hate is coarsing through me. I just watched a video preview of the game from Cbssportsline.com featuring Pat Kirwan and some guy I'd never heard of. All they said was, "Colts, Colts, Colts." The Colts are going to spread us out. The Colts are going to score fast. The Colts are going to swarm LaDainian. Bob Sanders will own him. Chambers is not a go-to guy.

My favorite was Kirwan saying, "Peyton Manning is one of the great self-correct guys in the league. He will not make the same mistakes twice." Really? Then why has Peyton's last three performances against us gotten progressively worse? He played decent against us in '04, worse in '05 and even worse this year. As far as the Colts' weapons, the Colts had Harrison, Wayne, Clark and Brandon Stokely for the '05 game. They had Tarik Glenn at left tackle instead of Tony Ugoh. They had Dwight Freeney at DE instead of whoever is starting in his place. And the Colts managed 17 points against us. :icon_shrug:

Phuck all of these no good phucking mother phuckers. Embrace the phucking hate.

The hate is coarsing through me. I just watched a video preview of the game from Cbssportsline.com featuring Pat Kirwan and some guy I'd never heard of. All they said was, "Colts, Colts, Colts." The Colts are going to spread us out. The Colts are going to score fast. The Colts are going to swarm LaDainian. Bob Sanders will own him. Chambers is not a go-to guy.

My favorite was Kirwan saying, "Peyton Manning is one of the great self-correct guys in the league. He will not make the same mistakes twice." Really? Then why has Peyton's last three performances against us gotten progressively worse? He played decent against us in '04, worse in '05 and even worse this year. As far as the Colts' weapons, the Colts had Harrison, Wayne, Clark and Brandon Stokely for the '05 game. They had Tarik Glenn at left tackle instead of Tony Ugoh. They had Dwight Freeney at DE instead of whoever is starting in his place. And the Colts managed 17 points against us. :icon_shrug:

Phuck all of these no good phucking mother phuckers. Embrace the phucking hate.

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after the chargers win the game this sunday against the colts. I really hope theres a national media day where all the talking head idiot media stick thier heads in toilets and flush. The talking head media gets paid to sell toilet paper, viagra , and female douches with the commercials that support them.. And folks wonder why the media is usually always sounding like they are constipated.

COLTS (-8) over Chargers
I see this game resembling the Pats-Chargers game in Week 2: Indy coming out like gangbusters at home, Phil Rivers looking lost, Norv Turner looking shellshocked, LaDainian Tomlinson sulking by the second quarter and, eventually, San Diego rolling over and playing dead. With the exception of the rain-soaked Sunday night victory over a depleted Indy team, San Diego took too long to get going against every other quality opponent, falling behind to New England by 24, Green Bay by 10, Jacksonville by 14, Tennessee by 14 and Tennessee by six in the playoffs. Why would Round 2 be any different?

Nope, you can't fall behind to the Colts in Indy unless you have Tom Brady and Randy Moss on your team. And normally, that would be enough to take Indy ... but in this case, a whopping five Manifesto Rules point to the Colts (No. 2, No. 10, No. 14 and No. 15), and if you think the Manifesto doesn't love grabbing Dungy and Manning at home against Rivers and Turner, you're crazy. For the Chargers to keep it close, they need TWO special teams touchdowns. Not one. Two. I can't even take this game seriously, especially after seeing Norv react in the last minute of the ugly Titans game like they had just won three Super Bowls at once.

after the chargers win the game this sunday against the colts. I really hope theres a national media day where all the talking head idiot media stick thier heads in toilets and flush. The talking head media gets paid to sell toilet paper, viagra , and female douches with the commercials that support them.. And folks wonder why the media is usually always sounding like they are constipated.

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Nah, it will just start again. We'll hear all week how we can't beat either New England or Jacksonville.